[GRLUG] Meeting tonight

[Benjamin Flanders]

My wife has one that I am sure I would be able to use.

On 12/6/06, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody have a digital video camera? It would be nice if the meetings
> could be recorded and posted to the web so scrubs like me who always miss
> the meetings can still be educated. Maybe a topic for the next meeting could
> be "Editing video with Kino".
>
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> On 12/5/06, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > Some time ago I considered myself an Access expert.  Currently I only
> > work with Oracle and MySQL.
> > I did experiment with OO Base a few times but I'm stumbling my way
> > through it.  The gui is very much like Access (tables, queries, reports,
> > forms).   It has wizards for tables and the other objects.
> >
> > I haven't used any tutorials but I'd like to learn about good ones.  I
> > would start on openoffice.org where you can find help/templates etc.
> >
> > My guess is that if you are good with Access you can figure out OO
> > Base.
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Szymon Machajewski
> >
> > Solutions Engineer / DBA
> > Red Hat Certified Engineer
> > Oracle Certified Associate
> > Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
> > www.grcc.edu/smachaje
> >
> >
> > >>> "Benjamin Flanders" <flanderb at gmail.com > 12/5/2006 9:09 am >>>
> > Szymon,
> > How does OO.org dBase compare to Access?  I have had pretty extensive
> > experience with Access and VBA due to my last job.  I would love to
> > learn how to create quick database applications without the huge (for
> > me) expense of Access.  Is there a book that would help?  Website,
> > tutorial or something?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Ben
> >
> > On 12/4/06, Al Tobey <tobert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/4/06, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Sorry I couldn't make it.  I tried, honestly I did, but it took 45
> > > > minutes to go from the south side of 28th to Calvin college and
> > that
> > > > is where I turned around.  There must have been an accident.
> > > > I am interested in the database topic, are there slides that can be
> > put online?
> > >
> > > That's it.   You're out.
> > >
> > > But really, neither Syzmon or I did any powerpoint or anything.    I
> > > talked in boring detail about AD Kerberos and Linux authentication
> > in
> > > general.   Syzmon talked about OO.org dBase and RDBMS's.    He
> > covered
> > > how you can get started with SQL and databases using a desktop
> > > database tool like dBase or Access then progressed into how to
> > choose
> > > a DB server like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
> > >
> > > If you have any specific questions, I'm sure one of us on the list
> > can
> > > answer.   By the way, the O'Reilly SQL Cookbook is one of their best
> > > new books in years.   If you're doing any amount of SQL work, buy
> > it.
> > >   It covers all the major RDBMS's and manages to cover every major
> > > feature of each, acting as a kind of rosetta stone.   People at work
> > > are tired of hearing me rave about how good it is - it's that good.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Anthony-Molinaro/dp/0596009763/sr=8-1/qid=1165289643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6824677-0812617?ie=UTF8&s=books
> >
> > >
> > > See you next time.
> > >
> > > -Al Tobey
> > >
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